Kendra
Holmes, “Children's Literature: What's so Childish about it?: Broken Psyches,
Re-envisioned Identities, and Alternative-Histories in the Confinement of a
Children's Text”

Pugh
210

5:15-6:00

Dinner Break

Keynote Address

6:00-7:15

Dr. Richard Flynn

(Georgia Southern University)

"My
Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics and Popular Music"

Richard Flynn is Professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University, where he teaches modern and contemporary poetry and children's and young adult literature. He is the author of a critical book, Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood (Georgia, 1990) and a book of poetry, The Age of Reason (Hawkhead Press, 1993). He has written extensively on children's poetry and adult's poetry that focuses on childhood, including essays on Gwendolyn Brooks, Muriel Rukeyser, June Jordan, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop, among others.

His work on children's literature includes his serving as editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly from 2004-2009. Recent essays include "The Fear of Poetry" in the Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature (2009), “Toward a Digital Poetics for Children” in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2010) "Culture" in Keywords for Children's Literature (2011), "The Bat-Poet: Poets, Children, and Readers in the Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature (2011) and a review essay on the work of Perry Nodelman in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (2011).

Forthcoming work includes “Words in Air: Bishop, Lowell and the Aesthetics of Autobiographical Poetry” in Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century (Virginia, 2012) and “My Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music” in Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: the Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. Edited by James McGavran (Iowa 2012).

“My Folk Revival” is part of a creative/scholarly memoir in progress about the intersection of music, politics, youth and privilege in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which will be the subject of his address.

The English Graduate
Organization of the University of Florida invites papers across disciplines
concerning the idea of novelty in literature, film, rhetoric or the production
of art. By interrogating the causes and effects of novelty in the life of an
artist, scholar or artistic movement, we hope to destabilize the boundaries
around the “old” and “new” and trace the lingering impact of these
game-changers across both time and disciplines.

In considering
novelty, we seek papers examining groundbreaking texts, new concepts of a
pre-existing text, the application of new media to traditional print texts, and
technological innovations in the creation and distribution of texts. Novelty
may also include revolutionary movements or groundbreaking use of specific
texts in theory, adaptation or collaborations. We also will consider novel uses
of technology that increase cultural circulation (such as viral videos or
alternative marketing), improve artistic quality, or even shift the
relationship between the human and non-human. The conference also invites
papers that discuss practical applications of the new to the old, such as
innovative pedagogical techniques like wikis or class blogs, or the
implementing of unorthodox genres into the classroom. Creative submissions
featuring the use of novel techniques or topics may also be considered.

We welcome abstracts
of up to 250 words along with contact information to ufl.ego@gmail.com
by Oct 1st, 2011. Please also indicate any a/v requirements (DVD player
and data projection available). Authors of accepted papers will be notified the
first week of October. For information on previous conferences, please refer to
our website at http://www.english.ufl.edu/ego.

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